Review of Mother (2009) by Nikolayg — 19 Dec 2017
Mother! is a terrible mush of symbolism so heavy handed it is embarrassing to watch. And it makes no effort to be a story. A woman moves into a house with her husband, a house soon invaded by strangers, bohemian partiers including a naked couple getting intimate, looters, a swat team, terrorists who start assassinating people, and soldiers (just before the house comes under mortar fire).
The woman is not the protagonist because she's utterly passive, takes no action - or only makes the most timid efforts to take action to get the strangers out of her house. She acts like no real person ever would.
The whole thing justifies itself as a metaphor or series of metaphors - mixed metaphors I'd say - and symbolism. But while a movie can have metaphors and symbolism, if it is to succeed it still fundamentally needs to be a story on a literal level.
There is no story here. Just pretentious nonsense.
This review of Mother (2009) was written by Nikolayg on 19 December 2017.
Mother has generally received very positive reviews.
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